Originally Posted by frenchman

Should've told them that they don't have to do that. If they were that hungry, you'd buy them a burger. They wouldn't have to go through the garbage.

Originally Posted by SgtSkiddz

A couple of weeks ago I run into a buddy of mine who is a member of a local MC. He asks me if I was coming to their party in a couple of weeks. Well the party was this weekend so yesterday I ask my Father-in-law if he wants to ride out and see what's going on. This was a charity fund raiser with vendors, live music, etc. Held in a city park. When there is a private organization that rents the park for an event they can pay extra and get an alcohol permit. (no alcohol in public parks without) The city had refused them an alcohol permit. So my F-i-l and I ride out pay at the gate and roll in. Not two minutes after we get there 4 city police cars and three sherrifs dept cars show up (even one police car from the next town showed up). Three of which had two officers in them. (mind you, our town is small. There are only 5 police cars on patroll in a shift.) They circle the wagons so to speak. Get out and start wandering through the area. Next while the person in charge of the event is talking with the lieutenant in charge of the city officers the other leo's start tearing open the garbage bags by the trash cans and taking pictures of the contents. We are all just getting a good laugh out of this. One officer is walking around with his hand on his pistol with his holster unsnapped. The LT is told that no one at the party is carrying and she answers..."of course not, cause y'all are all convicted felons and aren't allowed to own firearms." Wow, Really? Did those words just come out of her mouth? So me and the F-i-l go sit down and watch to see what happens. Our bikes are at the far end of the parked line of bikes because we were the last ones to arrive before the cops did. Now, while we are sitting there another Sherrif deputy pulls up at the far end of the line of parked bikes and pulls a camera out of his car and starts taking pictures (starting with my bike) of the license plate of every bike in the park. Didn't know what he was doing at first just saw him squatting next to my bike. I tell my F-i-l, Let's go see what he's doing. We walk over there and see what he's doing. My F-i-l asks him "why are you taking pictures of the bikes?" his answer "Oh, I'm just an avid bike enthusiast". Anyway after about an hour they packed up and rolled out. We got back to enjoying ourselves and the band started playing. I just hope no one got robbed, raped or something while the entirety of our law enforcement was out doing important stuff like taking pictures of trash bags. They didn't come back later so I'm assuming that none of the plates they took pictures of and ran, came back as registered to wanted felons. Go figure.

Edit: The reason I mentioned the alcohol permit was because that is why they said they were out there. Because they knew that there would be drinking out there, and they were sent to make sure that didn't happen.

Originally Posted by ord sgt

Reading this story made me think about the song "Alice's Restaraunt" by Arlo Gunthrie. Twenty seven 8x10 glossies with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back.

Originally Posted by SouthernGuy8503

Well it sounds like your town is smaller than mine. I can't remember how big size wise it is in sq miles, but I know lat time I looks it was 17,000 people. I thought the local cops here were bad when anything happens every cop goes just so they have something to do. But I've never heard of any of them looking through trash or anything like that during an event like that.

For the LEO's sides, I would say they were told by the Chief of Police to do that. If you were a LEO I highly doubt you would want to go through trash taking pics unless you were told to. I would feel like I'm wasting my time in that situation, it's not like it would be trash outside of a suspect in a case. The ones with their hand on their firearm and holster unsnapped were either new or they've never been in a real confrontation. They're the worst ones to get in a little tussle with since most will have an itchy trigger finger (on either their firearm or mace, or both). Now about the one Sheriff's Deputy I don't know, maybe he was told to do that also.

Lastly, I respect cops except for the ******* ones that think they're the **** and better just because they have a badge. Doesn't help with some of their egos getting bigger when they have women all over them, trust me cops are about the same way as military men (just not as much as military men) in that women automatically want them (except for the women that hate cops). You'd be surprised at how many LEOs lose their job over a woman or 2.